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Lenin issues his famous ‘hanging order’, demanding the public execution of a hundred kulaks in Penza.
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An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded
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White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.White Armies attack the Bolsheviks from all directions but the Red Army is finally victorious.
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Russian civil war ends
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Russian economy was about to crash, creating the New Economics Policy, or (NEP), in 1921 to allow some capitalist ventures to exist.
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Peasant unrest sweeps Russia. These risings are suppressed but the New Economic Policy is proclaimed that gives the peasants the right to sell their grain surpluses
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Doctors operate on Lenin’s neck to remove a bullet still lodged there since the August 1918 assassination attempt.
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Comusnists produced a Constitution. This was a mix of Democratic and Socialist ideals giving all citizens 18 an older the right to vote.
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) is established
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The ‘scissors crisis’, a gross difference in between the availability and prices of agricultural and manufactured goods, reaches its peak.
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Lenin’s last article, on the development of the Soviet bureaucracy, appears in the communist newspaper Pravda.
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Lenin died and they had preserved his body in a glass coffin in Red Square for over 65 years for people to come see.
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In 1928, Stalin had created the first of many Five-Year Plans, to strive for building heavy industy, increasing farm output, and improving transportation.
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During 1930's Grain Production has been riding. Although Vegtables, Meats, and Fruits had still remained in a short supply. Having enough available food to feed everyone was a remaining problem in the Soviet Union.
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More than 20,000 people are sentenced to death in the Soviet Union in 1930
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1.8 million peasants are deported in 1930-31, about 300,000 die and more than 100,000 are used in labor camps to contribute to the economy (railways, canals, mines, construction...)
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In 1934, Stalin had launched his reign of terror, or mostly known as "The Great Purge." During this he had his own secret police that would carry out his orders for him.
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More than 500,000 people are held in the Gulag
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From 1936-1938, Stalin had staged a series of spectacular public show trials in Moscow.
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Led by general Georgy Zhukov, the Soviet Union defeats Japan in the battle of Khalkin Gol
